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As nouns the difference between cricket and hockey is that cricket is an insect in the order orthoptera, especially family , that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs or cricket can be (sports) a game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in england and many commonwealth countries while hockey is (north america) ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks or hockey can be (darts).